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In deriving the plane wave solutions of Maxwell's equations in vacuum, one assumes from the very start that the E and B field oscillate with the same frequency omega (cf. Jackson). This is a starting point for all further properties of plane waves. Can one start from two different frequencies, one for E, and one for B and then show that from consistency reasons, they have to be the same?